This is your life, Atomic Flackery!

AUTHOR(S)

Solomon, Norman

PUB. DATE

May 1997

SOURCE

Indianapolis Business Journal;05/05/97, Vol. 18 Issue 7, p6B

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the nuclear power industry in the United States. Publication of editorials extolling the virtues of nuclear power; French people's trust of nuclear power; Deaths due to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.

ACCESSION #

9705144730

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